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Random Facts
100
This country controlled Canada in 1910.
What is the United Kingdom?
100
This was the most widely used form of transportation in rural Canada.
What is a Horse and Buggy?
100
Nurse, Secretary, Teacher, or Maid.
What are jobs that women were allowed to have?
100
This sport was invented by James Naismith.
What is Basketball?
100
This was promised to European immigrants to encourage them to come to Canada.
What is Free Land?
200
This is the number of provinces in Canada in 1914 (not including the territories).
What is 9?
200
This infrastructure for this mode of transportation was being built across Canada.
What is the train?
200
This industry was very prominent in the Pembroke area (and is partly why there are some very big, old houses there).
What is Logging/Forestry?
200
The first NHL team in Canada, which joined the league in 1917.
Who are the Montreal Canadiens?
200
This was the approximate population of Canada in 1910.
What is 7 to 8 million?
300
He was the Prime Minister in 1914.
Who is Sir Robert Borden?
300
The first one of these was successful in Baddeck, Nova Scotia in February of 1909.
What is the first successful powered flight in Canada?
300
The amount of money a "young clerk" would make in a month.
What is $30?
300
This entertainment FIRST became available at this time.
What is the Cinema or "Moving Pictures"?
300
These 3 ores were mined in Canada since the early 1900s.
What are silver, cobalt, and gold?
400
She was the Queen of England in 1900.
Who is Queen Victoria?
400
Ownership of this type of transportation is very low but people are becoming more interested in it at this time.
What is a car?
400
This doesn't really relate to this category but I want to see who remembers this word... What does it mean to have a "matriarchal" society?
It means "mother-rule", or that females are at the top of the power structure.
400
This Lake area became a resort for the wealthy in Ontario.
What is Lake Muskoka?
400
These are 3 subjects that students used to learn in school that are no longer taught in Canadian public schools.
What are Greek, Latin, German, Botany, and Bookkeeping?
500
He was the Prime Minister in 1910.
Who is Sir Wilfred Laurier?
500
What is a parlour car?
500
This is the amount a typical soldier made per day during World War I.
What is $1.10?
500
He was the first Canadian to win the world heavyweight title, reigning from 1906 to 1908.
Who is Tommy Burns?
500
When talk of "free-er" trade with America was happening, this province was considered "anti-Yankee" (Anti-American).
What is Ontario?